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by Matt Goldberg Posted:July 4th, 2009 at 10:27 am
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“Brothers”, the new film from Jim Sheridan (“In America”, “My Left Foot”), has such a wonderful premise for an honest story of emotional conflict: Natalie Portman plays a wife and mother whose husband (Tobey Maguire) goes missing while on a tour of duty in Afghanistan and presumed dead. She finds solace in his brother played by Jake Gyllenhaal. But then, it turns out that Maguire and the dying? Eh, not so much. He returns and you get a conflict so thick you could drizzle it over pancakes.
So how did they come out with a new trailer this bad? The music choices are awful and the genres feel all over the place. It starts out tragic, then it’s a romance, and then it’s a suspense-thriller. And it’s fine in a completed film to have all those genres but in a trailer, you need to sell a cohesive idea and this trailer, with such great actors, looks like borderline parody.
Hit the jump to check it out and try not to cringe. “Brothers” hits theatres on December 4th.
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It’s kind of off-beat to hear that Natalie Portman is playing a wife and mother in this movie…..Not a role we usually hear about from her….
It’s kind of off-beat to hear that Natalie Portman is playing a wife and mother in this movie…..Not a role we usually hear about from her….
I am a big fan of the Danish original so I was a little skeptical that the American version could live up to it, but it exceeded my expectations. Great direction by Sheridan and not as overly-sentimental as it might have been! A MUST SEE!!
I am a big fan of the Danish original so I was a little skeptical that the American version could live up to it, but it exceeded my expectations. Great direction by Sheridan and not as overly-sentimental as it might have been! A MUST SEE!!
omg toby mcguire look so sexy in this movie
omg toby mcguire look so sexy in this movie
It was really well-acted. I enjoyed it, and it felt very true-to-life — nothing that seemed unrealistic, and I felt the grief. However, it felt a little too tidy at the end.
It was really well-acted. I enjoyed it, and it felt very true-to-life — nothing that seemed unrealistic, and I felt the grief. However, it felt a little too tidy at the end.